Background & Aims of the Study: Increasing hazardous industrial wastes and lack of necessary regulations for management of them have led to serious problems in some parts of Iran. The aim of this study was to evaluate the situation of collection, transportation, recycling, and disposal of hazardous industrial wastes in the Khazra Industrial Park of Kerman, Iran. Materials & Meth...

Abstract This article discusses and analyzes modern technologies for the waste disposal from municipal treatment facilities according to ecological point of view. A review current their indicates that they have a valuable resource potential due high content organic substances mineral components. Thermal biological methods utilization are considered. The advantages disadvantages recycling specif...

Three types of commonly used commercial treatment processes were investigated for the removal of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from hazardous waste: thin-film evaporation, steam stripping, and distillation. These Unit operations were evaluated for their potential to control emissions from hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities (TSDFs) by reducing waste VOC content. One-d...

environmental pollutions are in considerable attention in steel industries in iran, where mostly are located around isfahan. therefore, an investigation was done mainly on the industrial pollution and waste related to the isfahan steel complex. a plant was installed to collect the uncontrolled fumes, gases and particulates from blast furnace number ii during tapping. this plant collects about 2...

Medical wastes are highly infectious and hazardous. It may carry the germs of dreadful diseases like hepatitis B and C (jaundice), and HIV/AIDS. It contains toxic chemicals and hazardous materials from several diagnostic and treatment processes. The improper disposal of Medical waste in the CMCH poses a high health risk to humans as well as the environment. This study was carried out from July ...

Background: one of the effects or impacts arising from implementation health service activities is emergence medical waste. Medical waste generated can be at high risk causing negative side for if not handled properly. In Indonesia itself, it has implemented regulations related to management in facilities listed region-based program. Lombok Island, West Nusa Tenggara Province target areas this ...

It has been a long since problem of waste treatment and their disposal. Waste management does create a major problem if it is not properly performed. Various problems including different side effects occur to the people where untreated or partially treated waste is disposed, thus care should be taken while waste management and disposal. It becomes more difficult a job to perform radionuclide th...

Solid Waste Management (SWM) system in Bhopal has deteriorated recently to the point that only limited waste collection is undertaken in certain urban areas and disposal is largely to uncontrolled dump sites. In this study, the technical, economical, and environmental aspects of three SWM scenarios were investigated aiming to compare the scenarios and select the most appropriate one for impleme...

I ssues pertaining to the disposal of surgical waste are seldom discussed in the dermatologic surgery literature. Management of surgical waste as pertaining to the surgeon includes proper disposal of sharps in appropriate containers as well as proper handling and disposal of infectious nonsharp materials. Attention should be paid to two particular issues. First and foremost is to minimize the r...